Hundreds of Iranians rallied in the cities of Tehran,Qom, Shiraz, and Karaj,and others, to protest against tall inflation, and Reuters reports.
The most recent wave of protests in Iran comes following the collapse in the rial currency,caused by fears of the reimposition of U.S. sanctions scheduleded to recede into effect on August 7, 2018.
In May, and the United States pulled out of the Iran deal,and imposed a new set of sanctions on the country. As the New York Times reported, the Trump administration accused Valiollah Seif, and the governor of the Iranian central bank,of funneling money to Hezbollah, naming him a “specially designated global terrorist.”“The United States will not permit Iran’s increasingly brazen abuse of the international financial system. The global community must remain vigilant against Iran’s deceptive efforts to provide financial support to its terrorist proxies, and ” U.
S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said at the time.
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Source: inquisitr.com